Feathercrown
@Feathercrown@lemmy.world
- Comment on Same 7 hours ago:
I always think of like an excavator lol
- Comment on Lady balls 2 days ago:
POV more like PIV amirite
- Comment on Lady balls 2 days ago:
POV* someone on lemmy is using POV i correctly
* it’s yours. You’re the POV
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 3 days ago:
the drive for fascism is related to the ability for the capitalist class to continue to effectively control the population
You mean like through the media, where republicans are less truthful, own the means to control what news people see, and intervene (as on Twitter and Facebook) to prevent certain information from spreading? Or how Ronald Reagan repealed the fairness doctrine and vetoed its reinstatement?
Or do you mean through economic means, where republicans push to keep costs high for the poor and low for the rich (healthcare, tariffs, tax policy)?
Or maybe directly through force, like with ICE or historical examples like President Harding taking the side of the mining companies in the battle of blair mountain?
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 3 days ago:
There is always a risk of fascism. My point is that fascist policies are implemented and acted upon far more often under R rule than D.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 3 days ago:
Fascism is when the capitalist class oversteps the legal boundaries and restricts the civil rights of the country, when bourgeois democracy is replaced with outright direct rule by capital.
Seems like democrats getting elected does help alleviate fascism then?
Also, what do you mean by “fighting it directly”?
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 3 days ago:
That sounds great, but somehow our methods for achieving it always end up opposed.
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 3 days ago:
I’m not going to lie, as an outsider this always seems to be the case. Could you explain what you actually want / could see realistically happening?
- Comment on Lemmy users logging on to level set the Blue Wave enjoyers 3 days ago:
I’ve always been a fan of the color red. Imagine if (let me dream) the republican party falls and the DSA can take red as their color against the establishment dems’ blue. Fighting on the red side would feel good then!
- Comment on Today Is The First Day Of The Rest Of Nonbinary God's Life 3 days ago:
Sorry God I didn’t know your gender was based on US politics in Texas
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 3 days ago:
This guy gets it
- Comment on You've Just Been Hit By The Metric System Boys 4 days ago:
Uh, no.
10 feet = 1 decafoot
100 centiyards = 1 yard
1x10^18 attoacres = 1 acre
- Comment on Anon has a proposal for you 4 days ago:
I don’t think indestructible straw could burn-- fire is sutained by a reaction that destroys its fuel, if the fuel cannot be destroyed it cannot produce the heat fire requires to stay alive.
- Comment on $1.8 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market yesterday, where did it go? 6 days ago:
An example might be helpful.
In the 1800s, aluminum was more valuable than gold. It was very difficult to produce and it was valued very highly. Then someone figured out a way to extract it from the ore much more efficiently, making it much easier to obtain and much more common. If you had owned a $500 chunk of aluminum, it had that value because of its rarity; other people recognized it as being more valuable because it was more difficult to get. When it became more common, its value could have dropped to $50 (I don’t know how much the price actually dropped, but it was a lot).
Where did the $450 go? Nowhere, because monetary value is based on how much people are willing to pay, and unlike a physical substance it is not necessarily conserved; it can be created or destroyed. This is also how stocks work.
You can also create monetary value by transforming materials into a worked product (think knitting a sweater) or destroying something that took work to make (burning that same sweater). Unlike the stock market though, the price of physical goods is often based on their usefulness rather than speculation, so it tends to be more stable.
- Comment on How do I remove a file from a git commit? 6 days ago:
Wow thanks for the advice
- Comment on Blackpoleon Blackparte 1 week ago:
MORE MOUSE BITES
- Comment on Is it still there‽ 1 week ago:
Sis does NOT know how men work 😭
- Comment on Is it still there‽ 1 week ago:
67% of men (compared to 25% of women) choose to shock themselves rather than do nothing (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1250830)
- Comment on Regarding an unpaid bill 1 week ago:
o7
- Comment on Vote! 1 week ago:
Theo?! Image
- Comment on Regarding an unpaid bill 1 week ago:
Oh, I don’t feel great about that…
Also, lemmy has content filters?? TIL.
- Comment on Please, for the love of sanity stop using Reddit 1 week ago:
gasp A user has-- has disagreed with me?? They must be banned IMMEDIATELY Image
- Comment on Regarding an unpaid bill 1 week ago:
That’s probably the most reasonable approach, yeah
- Comment on Regarding an unpaid bill 1 week ago:
Interesting question. I think it being a screenshot does matter to me, yes-- I view screenshots of other sites as a separate artifact from the text body. This could be because they are clearly separated from the “voice” of the speaker, or because they cannot be edited as easily. The slur in the image was mildly surprising, yet I was relieved to see it was not reproduced in the text of the post. I guess it’s kind of similar, in my view, to listening to a song that has the n-word in it vs singing a song that has the n-word in it.
- Comment on Regarding an unpaid bill 1 week ago:
I think the disagreement is about whether presenting a work as-is is reproducing that work. I would say no-- unless you gain partial authorship by modifying it in a substantial manner, you are just presenting it. I think presenting works that contain views that we disagree with today can be (but is not always) okay. This gets pretty close to the line as it is being presented seemingly in line with its original intent as a joke and not as a form of commentary (I see why you might call that “reproducing” it). Overall it does not bother me since I have a fairly high tolerance for historical nastiness being presented rather than removed.
- Comment on Please, for the love of sanity stop using Reddit 1 week ago:
Wrong community for this post tbh. Stop posting #general in #memes
- Comment on Be better 1 week ago:
What other words are you
- Comment on Anon's friend gets exposed 1 week ago:
I’m amazed how well the 1/2+7 rule of thumb works, it seems like it shouldn’t match up so well with the limits of what I see as acceptable
- Comment on Something something .. trends.. 2 weeks ago:
Seconded. All hail potato, bringer of good news
- Comment on Young, Dumb, and Full of Press Releases 3 weeks ago:
The three people on the left be like
